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Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town South Africa was opened in 1956 through public subscription as a memorial to soldiers lost in the Second World War. The suggestion that the memorial take the form of a children’s hospital was proposed by Vyvyan U.T. Watson. Mr Watson a prominent businessman had lost his first born and only son Peter Tennant Watson at about four years old to an outbreak of diphtheria in Cape Town.

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